Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pope John has neither begun a "revolution in Christianity" nor has he brought "Christianity to a new confrontation with the world." Rather the reverse is true-the world has brought Christianity into a new confrontation with its own outdated and archaic beliefs and customs...
...even a Nietzsche or a Rilke. When she was deprived of a lover one night, she compensated by eating one of his letters. One man once favored by Lou, recounting the affair 50 years later, was still dazzled. "There was something terrifying about her embrace," he recalled; "elemental, archaic. She was completely amoral and yet very pious, a vampire and a child...
Spoor & Spurn. What is most striking about Buchan's heroes, for modern readers at least, is their now archaic innocence and idealism of word and deed. Modeled on Buchan's Oxford friends and fellow World War I officers, they were created in a time when aristocratic and gentlemanly virtues were still fashionable and younger sons sought fame at the four corners of the world. For them, the trail of anything, even an idea, is always a "spoor." Girls, when they appear, and they appear seldom, are customarily wholesome and boyishly slim. Men are lean...
...Hassel's unusual first names are of archaic Frisian origin and often encountered in North Germany. Uwe (pronounced oo-vuh) is similar to Oswald, while Kai (rhymes with sky) is a near-perfect name for a German politician. It means: "One who is dangerous to his enemy...
Joxe, who negotiated the Algerian peace, was given the task of overhauling the vast, archaic administrative system, whose authority in France's 90 provincial departments has been steadily eroded by the centralization of government. Former Information Minister Fouchet, was assigned the even more arduous job of modernizing the nation's educational system, which is woefully short of classrooms, teachers and facilities for technical education (only 3% of all French students go on to a university...